From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 3 16:05:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82E9B16A4CE for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 16:05:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pengo.systems.pipex.net (pengo.systems.pipex.net [62.241.160.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE14B43D39 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 16:05:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark.cullen@dsl.pipex.com) Received: from ape (81-178-127-34.dsl.pipex.com [81.178.127.34]) by pengo.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with SMTP id C43A44C0034B for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2004 17:05:01 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <090c01c4a963$401b8ba0$f700000a@ape> From: "Markie" To: Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 17:08:40 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Subject: xorg DPMS weirdness with laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 16:05:03 -0000 I had to patch the trident driver which does the whole turn off backlight thing for the CyberBlade (which is what my laptop, unfortuantly, has) and this works with xset dpms force off/suspend/standby. However, if I just leave it alone it's still doing it's old behavior of making the screen black but leaving the backlight on. Any ideas as to why this might be? I have Options "DPMS" in my xorg.conf... maybe i'm forgetting something stupidly simple :-) No doubt the case. Thanks